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...July 16, 2001, Red Sox Nation’s invasion of Montreal was already two days old. Hours before the evening’s Olympic Stadium showdown, a French-Canadian tour guide was surrounded by a rowdy mob donning the traditional red-B headwear of the city??s transient majority. Initially the Expos employee concludes his tour with the customary “I hope you all enjoy the game tonight,” but then sensing the opportunity for last-second tips from the privileged throwing around their foreign currency like play money, he awkwardly adds...
...once had been the nation’s fourth largest city. This supremacy extended to the diamond, where the Yankees and Giants won pennant after pennant. In the Dodgers—a team that embraced Brooklyn’s underdog role and uniquely represented a borough rather than a city??Brooklynites found a metaphor for their municipal existence and rooted like mad for “Dem Bums” to outshine their pretentious Manhattan neighbors. When the team left, Brooklyn’s spirit of resistance perished, and it soon became just another borough. The word...
...skimmed The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene to figure out how to win the rat race. I perused the Zagat guide to discover where, in the nation’s most competitive restaurant market, I could (and should) eat. The New York Times introduced me to the city??s free offerings: the free movies in Bryant Park, the Summerstage concerts in Central Park, the book readings, the poetry slams, the roller skating rink. While exploring these options, I learned more. The admission fee at the Metropolitan Museum is only a suggestion. The sculpture garden...
...begrudge Sarah Jessica Parker and Co. the right to discuss the intersection of relationships and partial lobotomies (in the latest episode, she decides they could go together like “chocolate and peanut butter”). I begrudge the way “Sex and the City?? threatens to embody New York City. Yes, it’s glitzy. Yes, its social scene is, to a certain extent, driven by money. For example, this past June the New York Times reported that a British journalist armed with a fake title and an expense account was able...
Anyone can become a New Yorker—if you put your mind to it. I guess that’s what the creators of “Sex and the City?? have realized...